Area Briefs

April 20, 2006

YORK COUNTY

Head Start plans fathers' conference

York County's Men Advocating for Children program, in which fathers participate in parent training and activities with their children, was the key reason York County was chosen by Head Start's Regional Male Involvement Advisory Committee to host the committee's semiannual meeting, May 4 at York County's Griffin-Yeates Center.

The meeting, to be attended by about 20 representatives of Head Start's Region III, will be a time of planning for the regional fatherhood conference to be held in June in Philadelphia. Region III includes Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

For more information, call 890-3888 or visit the Web site at www.yorkcounty.gov/comser/childsvc/kids.htm.

Library announces short story winners

The York County Public Library announced the winners of the 2006 Jubilee juried literary competiton.

In the poetry category, winners were Michelle Bullock of Yorktown, first place, "Month Poem"; Robert L. Kelly of Newport News, second place, "A Young Poseidon"; Denise Dugre of Langley Air Force Base, third place, "A Day in the Life" and "The Slipper He Never Wore"; Michelle Bullock of Yorktown, honorable mention, "Time to Go"; C. Hudgins Hay of Yorktown, honorable mention, "When Pigs Fly"; Lynn Holston Shematek of Yorktown, honorable mention, "Krispy Kremes on the Dashboard"; Chris Murphrey Tyler of Poquoson, honorable mention, "Six o'clock in Shenandoah"; and Jill Winkowski of Yorktown, honorable mention, "Morning in Yorktown."

In addition to cash prizes, winners will have their work published on the library Web site, www.yorkcounty.gov/library. A commemorative booklet is also being prepared to showcase the winners' work. For more information on this and other library programs, call 890-5119, 890-5120 or 890-5207.

YORK/POQUOSON

Lions clubs to hold annual broom sales

Both the Poquoson Lions Club and the York Lions Club will hold annual broom sales during the last week of April and the first week of May. In addition to many different brooms, there will be mops, kitchen products, light bulbs and cleaning items available. All are made and/or packaged by the blind.

The Poquoson club's sale will be April 28-May 6. Sales will be door-to-door, 5-8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, as well as in the Farm Fresh parking lot, 460 Wythe Creek Road, from noon-9 p.m. April 28 and 9 a.m.-6 p.m. April 29.

The York club's sale will be April 28-May 3. Door-to-door sales will be conducted May 1-3. Direct sales on April 28 will be 6-9 a.m. at Pop's Drive-In and 3:30-6:30 p.m. at Seaford Country Market. Sales on April 29 are scheduled for 7 a.m.-1 p.m. at Pop's Drive-In; 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at Hallmark in Washington Square; and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at Seaford Country Market.

The Lion Club is a volunteer service organization that returns all profits to the underprivileged in the community.

YORK-JCC-WILLIAMSBURG

NAACP to hold life membership banquet

The York-James City County-Williamsburg 27th annual life membership banquet will be April 29 at the Kingsmill Marriott Hotel and Conference Center, 50 Kingsmill Road, Williamsburg. The event will begin at 5 p.m. with a reception and silent auction, followed by dinner, a program and entertainment at 6:30 p.m.

Roslyn M. Brock, vice chairman of the NAACP National Board of Directors, will deliver the keynote address. Charles A. Taylor, president of Thomas Nelson Community College, will be honored as a new NAACP life member and will serve as the honorary chairman. Wanda Wright of Williamsburg-James City County Schools, will be the mistress of ceremonies for the program, "Education: Our Legacy, Our Strength, Our Future."

Tickets are $50 and are available through the NAACP office at 229-3113. All proceeds benefit NAACP civil rights programs, scholarships and community outreach.

WILLIAMSBURG

Youth orchestra to offer summer music programs

The Williamsburg Youth Orchestra's 2006 Summer Music Festival will be 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Aug. 7-11 at Ewell Hall on the campus of the College of William and Mary. Student musicians of all ages and experience levels are invited to attend. The festival includes a week of daily rehearsals with large and small ensembles; classes in music theory, ear training and eurhythmics; master classes with faculty and guest artists; and a public performance.